Today at Kingsford – Black Rat Snake(s?)

Our landlord was up at the house today to take care of some yard work, so for Raven’s daily exercise I clipped on her leash and headed up the road. I haven’t been doing that as much since the forest has leafed out and all the birds have returned, since there’s only so much exercise [...]

Leaving behind childhood

Despite living on a lake, I don’t make it down to the water every day, depending on what I’m up to and where I take Raven out for exercise. A few days ago I decided just to take her down to the water to swim, rather than walking her down the road. As I was [...]

The bee-tree

Back in the winter, I mentioned that my favourite evergreen tree was the White Pine. It might actually be my favourite tree period; certainly when I walk through a place it’s the only species that I always take notice of and remark upon, breathing deeply of the delicious piney scent , and the one species [...]

Tuesday Miscellany

I’m a day late with my weekly miscellaneous wrap-up. We had some internet issues yesterday that took most of the day to sort out, which prevented me from doing anything online. It’s somewhat eye-opening to see just how much time is spent on the internet – or how much one relies on it for reference [...]

How does my garden grow?

Essentially since I moved out of my parents’ home to go to university I’ve been wanting a garden of my own. At one apartment I was able to dabble a little in a small raised bed that ran the length of the sidewalk leading to the side door, our apartment’s private entrance, but aside from [...]

Roly-poly fish beds

A couple of days ago, Dan took Raven down to our dock to throw the stick into the water a few times for her. Since becoming a bonafide water dog, she takes to the water like a fish and it’s easy to give her a good exercise while simply standing on the dock tossing sticks. [...]

The wolf among the flock

Heading down to the dock this afternoon I noticed this large aggregation of caterpillars on the trunk of a relatively young tree. The caterpillars are Forest Tent Caterpillars, Malacosoma disstria, related to the Eastern Tent Caterpillars, Malacosoma americanum, that are the stereotypical tent-builders commonly associated with the name. Whereas Easterns tend to be found in [...]

Today at Kingsford – My very own road

Spotted while driving out to Perth this afternoon – they even remembered the ‘e’!

Monday Miscellany

This weekend was spent visiting my family, at my parents’ new place east of Brockville. I packed up Raven and headed out on Friday, and then returned home late today. It was a tri-purpose gathering, combining a belated Mother’s Day with two birthdays (mine and my sister’s, which are two days apart, usually on Mother’s [...]

W Week – Wings of the day

White-striped Black, Trichodezia albovittata
To wrap up my W week I thought I’d post the counterpart of yesterday’s Wings of the Night: whereas yesterday was moths, today is butterflies. Well, mostly. Two butterflies and a diurnal moth. The latter is above, with Raven’s foot for scale. That wasn’t actually intentional; I noticed this little black-and-white lep [...]